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A Case for Living in the North (Picture Unrelated)

A friend of a friend moved here from South Carolina. When asked "Why on earth would you want to do that? I mean, it's cold here!" She explained it like this:

In the South, it's temperate and nice to be outdoors in the winter. In the winter, the days are short and the nights are long. In the summertime in the South, it's so hot and humid that she couldn't really do anything outdoors. She would get overheated after minimal activity and ended up spending the entire three months or so indoors, with the air conditioner on.

In the North, it's temperate and nice to be outdoors in the summer. In the summer, the days are so long you could fall asleep before the sun goes completely down. You can work outside all day and never overheat. Then you can play all night and still feel comfortable. In the winter, you stay indoors for three months with the heater on, but that's when it's dark a lot, and you wouldn't have a lot of time to do anything after work, anyway.

Therefore, if you are going to spend three months indoors, anyway, it's better to live in the North because your three months outside are full of long days instead of short days.

3 comments:

I think the best time to visit other places is around the equinox. The length of days and nights is the same and the weather is most likely to be bearable no matter where you're coming from.

I live in northern California so that I don't have to spend 3 months of the year indoors. Some cold days in winter, some hot days in summer - but most of the time it's like what you'll find at equinox somewhere.

I actually don't spend three months of the year indoors, either, actually. We're always outside. This weekend, we were out sledding both days. It's always about going outdoors to celebrate something. We had about fifteen, "Last warm weekend" of the years this year, and now it's, "Last time we can sled before it's sixty degrees next Tuesday."